Located at ORR Marthahalli in the city, it will focus on the development of high quality VR products helping SmartVizX become a full fledged VR products company from its current largely service based model.

At present, the company will kick off the R&D function with a team of 5 members to be led by the Shailesh Kumar, a veteran from the Samsung R&D team with over 15 years of experience.

Given the rising demand for VR content with recent surge of activity in the VR Hardware space, SmartVizX expects to double its R&D Team size and effort by the first quarter of 2017.

SmartVizX recently raised a seed round of over half a million dollars from Indian Angel Network (IAN), and Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs India (SA&E India).

Founded in 2015, SmartVizX is currently one of the highest funded Indian startups in the VR domain. Post the launch of its R&D facility, the SmartVizX Team also plans to enter new sectors such as edutainment, game content, hospitality, retail through their VR based solutions.